Doing Gender, Doing Geography (eBook, ePUB)

Emerging Research in India
Redaktion: Raju, Saraswati; Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a pioneering intervention in the social sciences as it brings together the contributions made by Indian geographers in understanding gender. It engages with the recent spatial turn in social science scholarship, seeking to reclaim the explanatory power of space and place in social theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136197352
• Artikelnr.: 38267335

Autorenporträt

Saraswati Raju is Professor of Social Geography, Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (ANU).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction 1. Gendered and Claiming a Place in the Androcentric
Discipline of Geography: Revisiting the Familiar Saraswati Raju 2. 'Doing
Gender' in Geography: An Indian Exploring Contemporary Feminist
Methodologies Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Part I. World of Work 3. Mobilities and
Spaces: Gendered Dimension of Migration in Urban India Arpita Bannerjee 4.
Creating New 'Places': Women and Livelihoods in the Globalising Town of
Burdwan, West Bengal Pallabi Sil 5. Gender, Poverty and Microfinance: Women
Self-Help Groups in Burdwan, West Bengal Gopa Samanta 6. Interrogating
Temporal and Spatial Negotiations: Home as the Gendered Site for Working
Women in Delhi Taneesha Devi Mohan Part II. Reproduction, Survival and Care
7. Expanding Masculine Spaces: Planned Births and Sex Composition of
Children in India Mohammad Izhar Hassan 8. Neighbourhoods and Narratives:
Contextualising Gender and Child Health in Urban Lucknow Manisha Singh Part
III. Domestic and Public Spaces 9. Unequal They Stand: Decision-making and
Gendered Spaces within Family Mohammad Sanjeer Alam 10. Are Public Places
Gendered Spaces? A Case of Kolkata Tanusree Paul . References. About the
Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index